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I have logged in as root, created the account, tried to log in - no go, had a look in the passwd file and the info in there is right, also the info that comes up when you finger an account is there, all ok, home dir, shell, i even went into the users home directory and created a .plan and it saw that as well.. Though when i went into the home dir i couldn't find it..

any ideas why can't see the .plan and still need to work out how to log in with a freshly created user..

by the info in there i mean in the passwd file, though there are a whole lot of lines
I can't post them now as i am at work, all to do with settings, it has listings for all of the users..

when i go into the passwd file the new user that i added is the last entry in there and from what i can rememer it is in the format password:username/home/dir:/bin/shell (it was something close to that..)

when i was talking about "Though when i went into the home dir i couldn't find it.. " I mean that when i went to look for the .plan file in the home directory (as root) i couldn't see it.

Thanks ahoffman. This problem is really irritating as it is RedHat 5.0 installed off the CD and it should be already setup to add users in the default way!! What a bastard. When I get home from uni I will try that out...

Ok, kewl, again i will have to wait till i get home this afternoon, but something that i can remember that may make a difference is that when i logged in as testuser with su it didn't ask for a password, and before you ask i did try and log in without any password..

Am update on the problem. It does lie within the password. I added a user in the X-win usercfg and set it to no password. Then I logged off and triued to login with the user with no password. I was able to. I also looked in the passwd file, every login has an X for the password where the password doesn't exist eg accounts like ftp, adm, daemon etc. The root account has an encrypted password there and the account we add has the password in plain view without encryption, I guess something to do with shadow passwords???

--Nige

ps we can su newuser as it skips the password, but as soon as we need a password, we can't login????

if you have shadow, your crypted password should go to /etc/shadow. But there's a well known bug in pam and when root changes the passwd to OTHER user, it gets changed into /etc/passwd, making some thing work but breaking others... Just add the keyword shadow at the end of the last line in /etc/pam.d/passwd, if not there.

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